{"data":{"id":"us-mt/30-14-2602","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"30-14-2602","heading":"Balance billing information -- notification to ambulance companies.","body":"(1) (a) Subject to one of the conditions under subsection (1)(b), an ambulance service licensed in this state may not submit to a consumer reporting agency information intended to affect a patient's credit report because the patient has not made full payment of a bill for ambulance services.\n(b) The prohibition under subsection (1)(a) is effective if:\n(i) the patient's insurer or health plan has paid for the ambulance services based on the in-network or out-of-network charges outlined in the patient's insurance plan; or\n(ii) an uninsured patient has paid toward the bill and filed with the attorney general's office a complaint regarding the bill as being an unfair trade practice because the bill is not based on usual and customary charges in the state.\n(2) An ambulance service that transfers a bill to a collection agency shall state that the collection agency may not report as delinquent to a consumer reporting agency a bill covered by subsection (1).","path":["TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 14. UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION","Part 26. Credit Report Submission Prohibitions"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0300/chapter_0140/part_0260/section_0020/0300-0140-0260-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:39Z","sha256":"3c5af5c93593c739e0484c524b30ca6fdfc0d3c22f68a15c77476ae597f58c32","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/30-14-2601","next":"us-mt/30-14-2701"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}